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gilles deleuze (18 january 1925 - 4 november 1995) was a french philosopher and, to me, the philosopher's philosopher and a sage. his work grapples with difference, creativity, though...
uses an actual-virtual distinction rather than real-possible. Deleuze thinks possible is a bad conceptconcept
In what is philosophy?, a concept is a creation (act of creativity) that testifies to the positive power of thinking as an event of life. philosophy creates concepts and puts th...
because it presupposes everything real is possible and can't explain why the possible hasn't come into being.1 The virtual is potential, e.g. the genotype compared to the phenotype.